iBreed
Pouch aficionado
Hello all. I have been quietly reading the posts, learning and enjoying the wonderful pics posted here for over a year now. At the same time started growing my orchid collection, mainly Phrags and lately Paphs (multi flowering type). Now, I’m starting to have some things to share so I decided it’s time to participate more actively here.
I have been hooked to orchids for many years but moving through several cities and countries and a heavy workload reduce my opportunities for keeping a collection. Not sure if any of these have changed now since I continue having a busy-busy schedule with a lot of international travel but at least for the last years I have been living in the same place, so I will give it a try. Besides, I have a forgiving wife that has seen how little by little I conquered one by one all windows at home with racks and tables holding my plants, and who now is suggesting I should start thinking in “something” outside in the garden to keep the orchids safe; and by the way, she waters them when I’m away traveling. Lucky me.
Gardening, traveling, music in general but specially opera and tango and watching soccer, beside orchids, occupies whatever free time I have.
For a living I work in the seed industry, I guess I can continue calling myself a plant breeder, that’s what I studied and worked all my life. Trained in school as a wheat breeder but then started my career as sunflower breeder working for a major seed company. After many years, many parent lines, and several commercial released hybrids I changed job and crop. Moved to Texas and became a hybrid rice breeder. After several commercial released hybrids, and I guess because I’m getting older, I now spend most of my time at meetings, travelling between Texas and South America and several other rice destinations evaluating rice genetics and helping other younger breeders to do their job. Love my profession, getting each day more interesting not only for what we do in the field but also because the rapidly evolving fields of molecular breeding, genomics, bioinformatics, etc. are opening many windows that let us see things that before we could not.
Look forward to learn from all of you and from the breeders in this group in your quest for beauty, aesthetics and harmony. Also from all of you that are up for the challenge of bringing a piece of nature into our homes and greenhouses and succeed maintaining and multiplying healthy plants to produce exceptional flowers.
Thanks for your warm welcome,
Jose
I have been hooked to orchids for many years but moving through several cities and countries and a heavy workload reduce my opportunities for keeping a collection. Not sure if any of these have changed now since I continue having a busy-busy schedule with a lot of international travel but at least for the last years I have been living in the same place, so I will give it a try. Besides, I have a forgiving wife that has seen how little by little I conquered one by one all windows at home with racks and tables holding my plants, and who now is suggesting I should start thinking in “something” outside in the garden to keep the orchids safe; and by the way, she waters them when I’m away traveling. Lucky me.
Gardening, traveling, music in general but specially opera and tango and watching soccer, beside orchids, occupies whatever free time I have.
For a living I work in the seed industry, I guess I can continue calling myself a plant breeder, that’s what I studied and worked all my life. Trained in school as a wheat breeder but then started my career as sunflower breeder working for a major seed company. After many years, many parent lines, and several commercial released hybrids I changed job and crop. Moved to Texas and became a hybrid rice breeder. After several commercial released hybrids, and I guess because I’m getting older, I now spend most of my time at meetings, travelling between Texas and South America and several other rice destinations evaluating rice genetics and helping other younger breeders to do their job. Love my profession, getting each day more interesting not only for what we do in the field but also because the rapidly evolving fields of molecular breeding, genomics, bioinformatics, etc. are opening many windows that let us see things that before we could not.
Look forward to learn from all of you and from the breeders in this group in your quest for beauty, aesthetics and harmony. Also from all of you that are up for the challenge of bringing a piece of nature into our homes and greenhouses and succeed maintaining and multiplying healthy plants to produce exceptional flowers.
Thanks for your warm welcome,
Jose
